- Submitted by
- gravity
- Observations date
- Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 22:45
- Location
- 55.335220° N 122.142990° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 03:30
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 2.5
- Slab thickness
- 150cm
- Slab width
- 190m
- Run length
- 200m
- Avalanche Character
- Loose dry
- Persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Snowmobile
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Start zone elevation band
- Below treeline
- Start zone incline
- 50°
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
We saw two slides one smaller one on a East facing slope and a large second one that buried my bike and partially buried me on a North East facing slope.